Monthly Archives: January 2017
Xarelto Bleeding Lawsuits Rise To Nearly 15,000 As Bayer Seeks Dismissal Of Failure To Warn Claims

Xarelto Bleeding Lawsuits Allege Blood Thinner May Causes Severe Internal Bleeding With No Approved Antidote To Reverse The Anticoagulant Side-Effects. As Xarelto bleeding lawsuits rise to nearly 15,000 in the Eastern Louisiana federal court, Bayer HealthCare and Janssen Pharmaceuticals have asked for summary judgment of failure to warn claims made in two cases selected for […]
Duodenoscope Lawsuit Lawyers Look At New FDA Warning On Risk Of Medical Scope Infections

Duodenoscope Lawsuits Complaints Allege Patients Potentially Develop Deadly Superbug Infections From Bacteria Transmitted From Tainted Medical Scopes. While Duodenoscope lawsuit complaints have been filed nationwide after people have developed the superbug infections after a procedure using the medical scope, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued an updated medical scope safety warning about […]
Plaintiffs In Stryker Femoral Head Recall Lawsuits Petition JPML To Consolidate Claims

Stryker Femoral Head Recall Lawsuits Allege Hip Replacement Components Prematurely Fail And Cause Pain, Inflammation And Other Complications. Plaintiffs involved in Stryker hip replacement failure lawsuits are asking a federal judicial panel to consolidate all Stryker femoral head recall lawsuits. The Stryker femoral head recall lawsuits involve Stryker’s recalled LFIT Anatomic CoCr V40 Femoral Heads. […]
Bair Hugger Lawsuits Alleging Severe Infections To Begin Pretrial Discovery

Bair Hugger Lawsuits Allege Life-Threatening Infections From The Forced Air Warming Blanket During Joint Replacement Surgery Bair Hugger lawsuits are moving closer to trial with case-specific discovery scheduled to begin on January 21. Parties in the federal Bair Hugger litigation were expected to select 16 to 18 Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits on January 20 […]
First Talcum Powder Cancer Lawsuit Trial Of The Year Scheduled For February

Talcum Powder Cancer Lawsuit Alleges Women Develop Ovarian Cancer After Extensive Use Of Talc-Based Products For Prolonged Feminine Hygiene. Talcum powder cancer lawsuit claims in St. Louis Circuit Court will see its first trial of the year on February 6. Last year, Johnson & Johnson lost three talcum powder cancer lawsuit trials in the St. […]
Physiomesh Lawsuit Alleges Injuries Suffered From Ethicon’s Hernia Mesh

Physiomesh Lawsuit Alleges Ethicon’s Hernia Mesh Caused Abdominal Bulge, Physical Pain, And Hernia Recurrence. Another physiomesh lawsuit has been filed over Ethicon Inc.’s hernia mesh. The filing comes after the company voluntarily withdrew the hernia mesh from the global market last year. Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is defending itself in at least […]
Over 2,000 IVC Filter Lawsuits Have Been Filed After Blood Clot Trapping Device May Cause Serious Injuries

IVC Filter Lawsuits Allege The Blood Clot Filters Are Defective And Can Migrate, Fracture, Tilt And Cause Other Health Complications. As the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation prepares to release updated numbers on IVC filter lawsuits filed, thousands of IVC filter complaints are already pending across the country. The inferior vena cava (IVC) filters […]
Filings Of Low Testosterone Drug Lawsuits Continue With 6,369 Cases Pending In MDL

Low Testosterone Drug Lawsuits Allege Men Suffered Heart Attacks, Strokes And Cardiac Death After Taking Prescription Low-T Drugs. More than 90 low testosterone drug lawsuits have been added over the past month to the multidistrict litigation (MDL) for Low-T drug complaints alleging that AndroGel, Androderm and other Low-T drugs cause blood clots, heart attacks and […]
First Federal Trial For Xarelto Bleeding Lawsuit To Begin In March

Xarelto Bleeding Lawsuit Filings Allege The Anticoagulant Causes Brain Bleeds, Strokes, Gastrointestinal Bleeds, And Other Serious Side Effects. A federal Xarelto bleeding lawsuit alleging gastrointestinal bleeding after use of the prescription blood thinner is scheduled for trial in March. This is the first Xarelto case to go to trial since federal Xarelto lawsuits were consolidated […]
3,000 Essure Birth Control Lawsuits Allege Bayer Failed To Warn of Essure Sid-Effects

Essure Birth Control Lawsuits Allege Bayer Failed To Warn of Essure Risks Including Bleeding, Perforation, Unintended Pregnancies, And Hysterectomies. As Bayer continues its efforts to dismiss Essure birth control lawsuits, the number of filings against Bayer has now reached 3,000 nationwide. Essure side-effects lawsuits allege Bayer failed to adequately warn that its permanent birth control […]